Vonta Leach, Willis ready to bang

NEW ORLEANS – In the Thanksgiving game in 2011, Ravens fullback Vonta Leach got a couple of good shots on 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis. Getting his bell rung clearly got Willis angry, as is evident in the video of that game, and Willis is looking forward to squaring off against the Pro Bowl fullback again.

“I say, bring it,” Willis said. “Bring it and we’ll see when the game’s over with what happened and took place.”

Leach smiled when he heard that and is looking forward to a physical game Sunday.

“All games are physical, but against them it’s real, real physical,” he said. “That’s good. It will be a great matchup. Pro Bowl linebacker. Pro Bowl fullback. Let’s get it.”

The 6-foot, 260-pound Leach is bigger than the 6-1, 240 Willis, who appreciates that they don’t make them like Leach anymore.

“Vonta’s a heck of a football player, he’s a tough-nosed fullback. To me, he’s seriously one of a kind,” Willis said. “He’s the last of a dying breed of a real fullback and what fullbacks stand for.”

Mr. Humility: Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis took a break from softball questions Thursday. He was asked how he keeps humility foremost, as he’s claimed, when he’s always courting attention and dances like a squirrel before and after games.

“That is a totally different person you are talking about,” Lewis said. “You are talking about on the field, an ultimate warrior – that is what I do. On the field isn’t about humility. I don’t get paid to be humble on the field. I get paid to hit people in the mouth.”

People “make you these gladiators because they only see you on game days. Off the field, you will find the most genuine people ever in life. I promise you, in my heart, I definitely am one of them.”

Open locker room: Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs was asked if he would have a problem with a gay teammate.

“Absolutely not. We wouldn’t have a problem with it,” Suggs said. “We don’t care. Our biggest thing in the locker room is to just have fun and stay loose.

“We just accept people for who they are, and we don’t really care too much about a player’s sexuality. To each their own. You know who you are, and we accept you for it.”